NYPD numbers revealed black suspects were arrested in 54% of murders, 55% of thefts, and 49% of assaults.

But 74% of homicides reported by the four stations where race was identified had black suspects; suspects in 84% of thefts reported on were African-American and in assault cases mentioned by the stations, 73% of suspects were black.

New York’s not the only city whose media focuses on crimes whose suspects are African-American. A 2011 study of Pittsburgh media showed that when African-Americans are the focus of a news story in newspapers, 36% of the time the reporting is about black men or boys committing crime. The numbers are even more skewed in television: 86% of stories in that medium dealing with African-Americans focus on black men and boys in connection with crime.